Binder for braid-rolls



(No Model.)

P. J. DUGGAN.

' BINDER FOR BRAID ROLLS. No. 250,428. Patented Dec. 6,1881.

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Wrmcssca. INVENTEIR- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK J. DUGGAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BINDER FOR BRAlD-ROLLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,428, dated December 6, 1881.

Application filed October 17, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK J. DUGGAN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Binders for Braid-Rolls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for holding braid when the same is coiled upon the spools; and it consists in so constructing the device for holding braid that it shall, when loose, constitute not only a holding device, but also a device which will furnish an elastic tensionloop, so that the tape cannot withdraw from it except by force applied for the purpose of withdrawing it. I attain these results by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in. which-- Figure l is a perspective view, showing a coil of braid with my device attached. Fig. 2 shows the device as it appears when not connected with the spool. Fig. 3 shows the device as it appears when connected with the spool.

To construct my device, I bend a piece of wire as shown in the drawings, and indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 by the letters I) B B B B 13 B B forming an open loop, as shown at O O in Fig. 2, when not attached to a spool, and forming a partially-closed loop, as shown at O and O in Fig. 3. This closing of the loop 0 O is caused by opening the parts B 13, this action serving to spring or throw upward the parts of the wire marked 11 11 Fig. 3, thus pinching with a spring-like tension the tape in the loop 0 O. The coil 13 in the wire serves to give the device more elasticity, and thereby better tension qualities. The coil also serves as a handle to be used in the rewindingofthe tape.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is-- A braid-binder consisting of a single piece of wire bent to form the members b B b BB B B b B b, all arranged and operating together substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

PATRICK J. DUGGAN.

Witnesses:

HELEN M. FEEGAN, FRANK G. PARKER. 

